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Aku Louhimies' (Lovers and Leavers ? Winner of Cinequest?s Best Narrative Feature, 2003) hard-hitting Frozen Land was inspired by Leo Tolstoy's short story Faux Billet, in which mischance is passed from one person to another. Winning numerous awards at the Gothenburg Film Festival, including Best Nordic Film, Frozen Land delves into the territories of courage, consequence and survival.
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Cinequest is proud to have this special World Premiere of this fascinating new documentary.
It is now known as the ?Blood in the Water Match? and the focal point of one of the most politicized sports matches every played?the Hungarian water polo team collides with the world class Russian team in the 1956 Olympic Games.
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Sam and Catherine have been estranged for years, having deliberately lost sight of each other because they simply do not get along. Now, both must return home to deal with the sudden death of their mother.
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"City of Hope? City of Friendship? City of Death?? So mutters fatigued police investigator Habib as he returns to Mashad, the holy city that guards so many memories for him. Just a cog in the Iranian justice system, he?s become more and more disillusioned with the officials he serves, and his arrival in Mashad only encourages his feeling that his superiors are interested more in asserting their power than in serving justice.
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The thoughts and emotions that must be churning in Jaakko?s head as he must tell the police how he watched his youngest son die in a terrible domestic accident only a day ago. Are there truly any words that can heal a parent?s grief? How the surviving members of the family deal with this death is the subject of director Karl Paljakka?s powerful and heartbreaking story.
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Returning home one night, Sera is surprised to find someone in her living room. The stranger, Andrew, says he?s a real state agent just taking refuge from the storm outside, but is he telling the truth? Even more importantly, will Sera be able to distinguish between truth and lies during the long, unpredictable evening she has in store ahead of her?
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Starring LEIGHTON MEESTER of GOSSIP GIRL.
Gaby Winters is desperate. In order to pick up some extra cash, she has agreed to babysit a precocious and smart assed 16 year old girl. But while Gaby is supposedly watching her, the rebellious girl mysteriously vanishes. Urgently needing to find the defiant girl before the parents come home, Gaby embarks on a wild adventure which leads her on a seemingly endless search, encountering numerous bewildering, amusing and sometimes dangerous characters.
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My Larsen is an award-winning documentarist in her early thirties. Self-centered and assertive, she likes to challenge and provoke her surroundings. She takes on an unusual assignment to make a film about the conservative township of Ravnsborg. Given broad control over what she can film, My employs all kinds of techniques to capture her subjects, with and without their knowledge.
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Somewhere in the Eastern European shadowland between the surreal and the absurd, there stands a hunter?s lodge, where the male descendants have returned to honor their dead grandfather, inspect the premises and continue a time-honored family hunting. But things are not as they once were, and what once seemed straightforward is now vague and just a little menacing.
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Phillipe, who daydreams about traveling in space, is stuck in a dead-end job as a telemarketer. He keeps delaying the defense of his doctoral dissertation, in which he asserts that man?s desire to explore space stems from his own narcissicism. When Phillipe?s mother dies, he realizes that he is alone in the world, and seeks to reconcile with his younger brother, a successful TV weatherman. But for an alienated man who believes that people are only interested in themselves, it is easier to search the mysteries of the universe than to relate to others on this planet.